Don't drink the cool head.

For the purposes of this podcast, we define a cult as organizations that rally behind

an entity or leader who espouse beliefs outside the norm.

Organizations that require physical or monetary sacrifice

as a condition of membership.

Organizations in which the doctrines followed by the leaders are different

than that of the followers.

Organizations in which isolation is encouraged either by commune living or by a policy of

disconnection from outside relationships.

And organizations that actively recruit new members.

All cults might have some or all of these traits and as always

these are our opinions.

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I do have to read through these sources and I kind of still want to bury the lead because there's a great surprise in this episode.

So if you're listening to this and you have a degree in social psychology don't

spoil it for everybody else just saying yeah don't be a fucking nerd about it

didn't be a fucking nark I went to school for narking but also social psychology so is social psychology so is

social psychology when you nark on yourself well on your own brain

social psychology is when society knocks on you. It's a lot of studies about

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